NAVY YARD CITY: Teens arrested after car chase

Three teens led sheriff's deputies on a car chase in Navy Yard City on Monday, almost causing several head-on collisions in the process.

Kitsap County Sheriff's Deputy John Sprague finally herded the speeding vehicle into a guard rail on Highway 3 near the Highway 304 interchange as the youths careened north in the southbound lanes of the freeway.

"It was a little bit of an adren-alin rush,'' Sprague said.

The trouble started in South Kitsap about 8:30 p.m. when a 16-year-old Port Orchard boy allegedly stole a 1988 Ford 4x4 pickup from a parking lot at Marcus Whitman Junior High School.

The driver and another 17-year-old boy picked up a girl, 15, and and the group decided to take the truck to California with a quick stop in Bremerton.

In the meantime, a friend of the youths notified the sheriff's office the truck was stolen.

A sheriff's deputy spotted the truck heading north on Highway 3 near Highway 304 and the chase was on.

The truck led patrol cars in a loop.

The driver exited at Loxie Eagans Boulevard, continued to National Avenue, and turned east onto Preble Street.

By that time, three patrol cars were in pursuit.

When a patrol car tried to pull the truck over at Charlotte Avenue and Preble, the truck took off at high speed.

Both of the truck's right tires blew out when it became airborne on a hill and smashed back to the pavement.

But that problem and the three patrol cars that surrounded the truck didn't stop the driver.

The youth backed the truck into a power pole, threw the truck in drive and sped away, narrowly missing a patrol car.

The truck continued down the hill, turned south on Highway 304, and ran a stop sign.

It attempted to take the northbound exit to Highway 3, but spun out, coming to rest heading in the wrong direction.

The truck started up again and was traveling about 25 miles an hour  headed into oncoming traffic  when Sprague drove up next to the truck and bumped it into the guard rail.

The truck became hooked to the guard rail, but the driver again attempted to drive it away without success.

Sprague's 1992 Chevrolet Caprice sustained damage, but he was uninjured.

Patrol cars from the Washington State Patrol and Bremerton Police Department joined in the chase.

The three youths were arrested.

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